Posts tagged with "superheroes"

Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD S03E18 “The Team” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on: E4, Sundays, 9pm
Writer: Lauren LeFranc
Director: Garry A Brown
Essential Plot Points:
In the immediate aftermath of last episode, SHIELD is rebuilding. Mack and May head to the hangar where Phil is launching Zephyr One. He briefs the team on the plan to rescue Daisy as May executes some incredible flying to get the plane through the warped hangar doors.
At a spot where...

Supergirl S01E14 “Truth, Justice And The American Way” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on Sky 1, new episodes every Friday
Writers: Yahlin Chang, Caitlin Parrish
Director: Lexi Alexander
Essential Plot Points:
Non comes to Kara to ask her to officiate over Astra’s funeral, and then tells her that the next coffin will be hers after the two week mourning period is over.
Alex is still struggling to deal with her guilt over Astra’s death, while...

In a round-up of how this season’s TV pilots are faring at their respective studios, Deadline has this to say about Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD spin-off Marvel’s Most Wanted, which spotlights former SHIELD agents and romantic couple Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter:
“Reaction to Marvel’s Most Wanted has been solid to mixed, and there had been a talk for potential tweaking, so the project is in consideration but not a shoo-in.”
Sounds like there’s...

Speaking at an event at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC yesterday, The Avengers: Infinity Wars directors Anthony and Joe Russo let slip that Captain Marvel, who’ll be the first female superhero to front her own solo Marvel movie in 2019, will appear in Infinity Wars.
They actually mentioned Captain Marvel by name when a fan quickly leapt in to ask. “Did you just confirm Captain Marvel?” to which they replied, “Um… Captain...

Legends Of Tomorrow S01E10 “Left Behind” REVIEW
Airing in the UK on: Sky1, Thursdays, 8PM
Writers: Phil Klemmer, Marc Guggenheim
Director: David Geddes
Essential Plot Points:
The Legends reach 2147 in pursuit of Savage.
There they learn that he is a tutor to a young boy named Per Degaton who will eventually grow up and release a virus that will destroy most of the word’s population and make it all the easier for Savage...

One of the greatest sequences in any X-movie remains the BAMFtastic opening to X2 when Nightcrawler infiltrated the Oval Office in the White House and proved to be one of the most spot-on translations of a superhero from page to screen ever. Sadly that incarnation of Nightcrawler was a one-film only affair. But now a new, younger Nightcrawler features in the new X-Men: Apocalypse (don’t worry about continuity… the ending of Days Of Future Past...

The Deadpool team has created a whole new advert to promote the DVD and Blu-ray release of the unexpectedly mega-successful Marvel movie. And, as you might expect for Deadpool, it’s not just a clips’n’voiceover effort. This is a whole new mini-epic with Deadpool playing a typically twee advert husband.
Deadpool is released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 13 June.
Don’t let age, Mother Nature or groin trauma tell you what to do. #Deadpole...

Director Josh Boone has revealed via a series of pics on Instagram the line-up for the X-Men movie New Mutants.
They are (in order from left to right, top line first above): Warlock, a techno-organic being capable of changing size and shapes; Magik, sister of Colossus and a powerful sorceress who can teleport; Sunspot, who can absorb and channel solar radiation to both fly and create energy blasts; Cannonball, who can fly using propulsive energy; Dani...

Fox and various associates sponsors have been releasing a whole bunch of X-Men: Apocalypse–related gubbins over the past 24 hours including a blink-and-you’ll miss it Angel featurette, a fast food advert with a recast Beast, a new trailer and a new IMAX trailer. Still no sign of Nightcrawler’s Greatest BAMFs but you know it’s gotta come at some point…
X-Men: Apocalypse is released in the UK on 19 May.
X-Men: Apocalypse –...

Avengers: Infinity Wars Parts 1 and 2 directors Joe and Anthony Russo have revealed that both films will be receiving new titles to stop people thinking that each one is only half a movie and also to emphasise that they are “very different”.
“It is misleading,” to think of the films as Parts 1 and 2, Anthony Russo tells uproxx.com.
“The movies are two very different movies,” adds Joe. “The intention is we will change it, we just...